Poems

The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth […]

The Novelist Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so […]

The Quest I. The Door Out of it steps our future, through this door Enigmas, executioners and rules, Her Majesty in a bad temper or A […]

The Riddle Underneath the leaves of life, Green on the prodigious tree, In a trance of grief Stand the fallen man and wife: Far away the […]

The Shield Of Achilles She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas, But there on the […]

The Two You are the town and we are the clock. We are the guardians of the gate in the rock. The Two. On your left […]

The Unknown Citizen (To JS/07/M/378/ This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom […]

They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden They wondered why the fruit had been forbidden: It taught them nothing new. They hid their pride, But […]

This Lunar Beauty This lunar beauty Has no history Is complete and early, If beauty later Bear any feature It had a lover And is another. […]

Three Short Poems “The underground roads Are, as the dead prefer them, Always tortuous.” “When he looked the cave in the eye, Hercules Had a moment […]